OUYA available to pre-order in UK for £99 from GAME

As Pocket-lint told you exclusively back in January, the OUYA Android console will cost £99 in the UK. And although it hasn't quite hit the March release date we were also given at the time, it is now available to pre-order.

The online store doesn't mention a release date, but we wouldn't expect there to be much more of a shipping delay as the first batch of consumer consoles has started to be sent to the initial supporters of the project on Kickstarter. It is now believed that there will be a wider release in June.

Some might feel that the price of an additional controller - the console comes with one in the box - is a bit steep, considering that it's two-fifths the price of the console itself. And if you factor in that you can have up to four people playing at the same time on some games for the machine, that would set you back close to £220 just to give each of them a gamepad.

Our senior ed of news and features has been a tech and games journalist for more than 27 years, and has been with Pocket-lint for over five. Rik has edited a number of videogame magazines in the past, was deputy editor of Home Cinema Choice, and his TV career included stints as co-presenter of Channel 4's Gamesmaster and Sky One’s Games World.